We are going to call the legislative branch of the Committee Fiscal Year 2021, subcommittee mark up to order. Welcome to our subcommittees markup. I very much appreciate the hard work and attitude of all the subCommittee Members and particularly the contributions and cooperation of our Ranking Member, mr. Butler. Thank you for being so great to work with. There are lots of needs and good causes within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee. We have tried to take care of the highest priorities throughout the bill with the amounts available to us. Fundamentally, and the bill provides increases to support staffing and other resources needed by congress to do its job well, to maintain and build analytic capacity in the legislative branch. For example, the bill provides a 25 Million Dollar increase for the members representational allowance, which covers staff, District Office space and other necessities. I also believe this funding is sufficient to address our new normal as members move to h
Are ones that the court made very unpopular decisions. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stuck together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Tonights case is gideon versus wayne. Wreck 55 years ago this month, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to counsel was so fundamental to our dove governmental system. That states must provide lawyers for defendants who cannot afford. One the hero of tonights story is a bit of an unlikely. One Clarence Gideon was adrift her from florida was accused of breaking a pool. As we begin tonight, were gonna go to some historic video. You see the real mr. Gideon and the florida judge who sentenced to jail. They reenacted the case for cbs news documentary in 1965. Lets watch the next case on the docket is the state of florida versus Clarence Earl gideon. What says the state are you ready for trial . The st
The whole thing i was saying went right over the head and you prove my case again. All that was missing was another cheap shot or a bucket of chicken. Back. D the gentleman yields. The question occurs on the amendment. Im sorry. Thewhat purpose does gentleman from california seek recognition . The gentleman is recognized. Chairman, 13 years ago i partnered with the California State Senate democrats in advocating for an open records act for complaints against Police Officers. Five years ago i cosponsored Hank Johnsons stop military rising the police act militarizing the police act. If you are seeking bipartisan support for police reform, you would have it. If you had sought consultation and compromise and cooperation, if you reached across the aisle, you would have found many sincere allies. Not only did you not offer republicans a seat at the table, you have not offered her publicans seats in the committee room, disenfranchising many of us who thought this issue was too important to ph
Thank you, mr. Chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. And the nature of a substitute to hr 71 120, at the end of the bill the following, recorded. I have an instruction to the amendment. The gentleman is recognized. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, over the past few weeks we have seen thousands of americans exercise the right to peacefully protest. I applaud these individuals for spurring the important debate we are having today about police conduct. However, we are also seeing rioting, looting, and violence. This destructive and frankly despicable behavior led to the murder and maiming of Law Enforcement officers, including David Patrick underwood and david dorn. And these destructions and the destruction of cities and the destruction of my owned businesses. Violence is not protected by the first amendment. Those participating in such reprehensible actions should face the full force and extent of the law. One such group inciting violence in our communities is that of leftist
We need to focus the staff people on doing the research for whats coming next. Its the same people. Its appraisers doing market data research. Supervisor excuse me. It seems as though what im hearing from president yee is at one time the Assessors Office requested more assistance, more ftes to address the backlog for so long and through diligent work, youve gone through the backlog at an impressive rate so i think what president yee is asking is why are you keeping them in the budget and youre saying theres new work now. Thats right. Supervisor but actually the funding for those particular ftes were specifically tied to the request of the backlog. I think what im paraphrasing is what president yee is questioning whether those ftes should be reevaluated by the board since the board was the one to first grant the additional ftes to address the backlog and whether the ftes should be assigned to the new job of collecting the data. I dont think were questioning theres a need but the process